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Top Trends Shaping the Records and Information Management Market

Thursday November 30th 2017 from 8h30 to 10h30

generously sponsored by OpenText

2017 represents the 8th year that Forrester Research and ARMA International have collaborated on joint research. This session will highlight many of the key findings from this recent survey data. Led by industry analyst, Cheryl McKinnon, particular attention will be paid to Canadian tech spending trends, and issues unique to government. Understand how cloud, intelligent content services, and automation will shape IM/IT teams into the future.

*** Note: Conference will be given in English ***

Cheryl McKinnon is a principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals; she helps them support their firm’s need for content and collaboration technology capabilities in the age of the customer. Cheryl delivers research and advisory services in areas including enterprise content management (ECM), content archiving, enterprise file sync and share, document-centric collaboration, life-cycle management, information governance, and file analytics.

Before joining Forrester, Cheryl ran an independent consulting firm, serving both private- and public-sector clients. Cheryl has served as vice president of marketing for industry association AIIM, was chief marketing officer of Nuxeo, and held senior management roles with OpenText and Hummingbird.

Cheryl frequently presents at events such as conferences, seminars, and webinars. She is a longtime member of AIIM and ARMA, and has served on their association conference and standards committees. Cheryl has been a guest contributor to a variety of industry publications and has been quoted in TechCrunch, TechTarget, Bloomberg, Reuters, KMWorld, and CMSWire, among others.

Cheryl has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Winnipeg, an MA in history from Carleton University, and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in history at the University of Ottawa, though she remains (regrettably) “ABD.”

Innovation - the core of the information lifecycle

The AAQ, the Réseau des services d’archives du Québec (RAQ) and ARMA Montréal are pleased to announce that registration is open for Innovation – the core of the information lifecycle!

On November 3rd, join us at the Hotel des Gouverneurs in Trois-Rivières to discuss the current and upcoming challenges and opportunities facing our profession: digital preservation, virtualization, electronic signatures, and the cloud. We are proud to have leaders in our domain as well as adjacent ones bringing their experience and fresh ideas to bear on these and other pressing topics.

Additionally, we will welcome the annual general assembly of the RAQ, celebrate the launch of the special 50th anniversary edition of the Cap-aux-diamants magazine, enjoy a plenary discussion session on the conference presentations and top it all off with a networking cocktail hour.

While the full program will be published in the weeks to follow, we are excited to reveal our keynote speaker, M. Gilles Brassard, a quantum computer cryptologist. Don’t miss this world-renowned scientist on the technological innovations poised to shift our professional paradigms!

How can Agile enable Enterprise Content Management projects?

An Agile approach is increasingly a business requirement for more and more projects, and not just IT projects. However, Agile project approaches and methodologies are frequently introduced in a conflicting way. This lunch and learn will position Agile in the context of other project management approaches, explore its foundational principles, illustrate how Agile could be the right choice for enterprise content management (ECM) projects, and provide some recommendations for getting started with Agile in ECM. The presentation will include a summary illustration of how the Agile SCRUM methodology can be used for an ECM project.

Pierre Jr Beaudry, PMP, is a certified Scrum Master with over 15 years of experience in project management. He has been responsible over the course of his career for projects ranging from enterprise content management (ECM) to application development to infrastructure installation to system integration, many of which were strategic and business-critical. His deep experience in both technology and management has enabled him to successfully lead large scale, multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary and multi-vendor projects from feasibility to delivery. In addition to providing project management skills to key clients, Mr. Beaudry also manages the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Centre of Excellence at Larochelle GC and is senior director of its team of ECM consultants.

Risk : a key to better records management

Monday, November 23rd, 2015, 12:00-1:30pm

As record and information professionals we are always required to deliver stronger, better, more compliant programs with fewer staff and resources. Different organizations achieve this in different ways. At Bell, this is being achieved through risk assessment. Dylan and Peggy will discuss the approach that was taken, and how Bell and Iron Mountain partnered to develop and deliver a risk assessment to key areas of the organization.

This event will take place in French.

Margaret Ferguson has worked in information management through three careers (in publishing, psychiatry, and the public service). For the past decade she has specialized in enterprise content management (ECM) design, architecture, and roll-out in the public and private sectors. Currently she is providing professional services in ECM configuration, roll-out, and onboarding, knowledge and information risk management and governance, and end-user training and e-learning development as senior consultant with MindShare at Public Works and Government Services Canada.

Dylan Spevack-Willcock received his MLIS from McGill University in 2008. He spent a few years working at ICBC in British Columbia, where he led Records Management and process improvement initiatives, including assessing risks related to the records management program. In 2011 he returned home to fill his current role with Bell Canada, building their records management program and implementing policies, processes and technologies to ensure effective management of corporate records. He has also worked with ARMA International on the revision or creation of a number of standards and technical reports. Since September 2015, Dylan has been working with Bell Canada where he works within the domain of risk assessment for the company’s suppliers.

ARMA International has collaborated with Forrester Research over the last six years to track the trends, challenges, and evolution of records management and information governance. This session, with a focus on Canadian data, will highlight some of the key findings of the survey and help RIM professionals benchmark against their global peers. Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Cheryl McKinnon, will present the survey findings and discuss where Forrester sees Records and Information Management heading in 2016 and beyond.

*** Note: Conference will be given in English ***

Cheryl McKinnon is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research serving the needs of Enterprise Architects. Her coverage areas include: enterprise content management, records management, archiving, information governance, and eDiscovery. Before joining Forrester, Cheryl ran an independent consulting firm, serving both private and public sector clients. Cheryl has previously served as VP of Marketing for AIIM, Chief Marketing Officer of Nuxeo, and has held senior management roles with OpenText and Hummingbird. Cheryl has frequently presents at conferences, seminars and webinars. She is a longtime member of industry associations AIIM and ARMA and has served on association conference and standards committees. In 2013 she was named Member of the Year by the National Capital Region chapter. Cheryl has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Winnipeg, a Master’s degree from Carleton University and has completed coursework towards a PhD at the University of Ottawa, though she remains (regrettably) “ABD”.

Laval, 12 March, 2014 – The organizing committee of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Association des archivistes du Québec would like to officially announce the opening of the registration period. The preliminary conference program is now available online as the following address:http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/congres-14/congres-2014